Ghaith Abdul-Ahad travels deep into Yemen's radical heartland to investigate how Al Qaeda and affiliated militants have seized areas in southern Yemen and are winning some popular support.
Excerpts from a September 1997 classified Royal Canadian Mounted Police
intelligence briefing on Eastern European-based organized crime (EEOC).
This document warns how EEOC can use Russian sports figures in North America to
build their base on the continent and further their business and financial
operations.
The influential think tank The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued this 1997 report on Russian organized crime as part of its Global
Organized Crime Task Force headed by William H. Webster, former FBI chief.
Excerpted here are sections dealing with the pervasive link between Russian
organized crime and sports; how 'krysha,' (a term cited several times in
FRONTLINE's report "Mafia Power Play") is a key component integrating criminal
and legal economies in post-communist Russia; and how Russian organized crime
has links with other organized crime groups worldwide.
